Douglas I. Benn

17.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
158 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

About

Douglas I. Benn is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas I. Benn has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Atmospheric Science, 51 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 39 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Douglas I. Benn's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (130 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (65 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (59 papers). Douglas I. Benn is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (130 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (65 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (59 papers). Douglas I. Benn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Norway. Douglas I. Benn's co-authors include David J. A. Evans, Lewis A. Owen, Adrian Luckman, Colin K. Ballantyne, Lindsey Nicholson, Ruth Mottram, Frank Lehmkuhl, Jason Gulley, Tobias Bolch and Charles R. Warren and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Douglas I. Benn

157 papers receiving 11.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Glaciers and glaciation.

2010 929 citations Douglas I. Benn, David J. A. Evans Durham Research Online (Durham University) profile →
Calving processes and the dynamics of calving glaciers

2007 549 citations Douglas I. Benn et al. Earth-Science Reviews profile →
Response of debris-covered glaciers in the Mount Everest region to recent warming, and implications for outburst flood hazards

2012 480 citations Douglas I. Benn, Jason Gulley et al. Earth-Science Reviews profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Douglas I. Benn	11.2k	3.1k	2.5k	1.7k	773	158	12.0k
Garry K. C. Clarke	8.0k 0.7×	3.0k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	801 0.5×	284 0.4×	184	9.0k
David J. A. Evans	9.0k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	567 0.2×	2.5k 1.5×	1.0k 1.3×	263	9.7k
Alun Hubbard	6.6k 0.6×	1.7k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	603 0.4×	304 0.4×	161	7.4k
Julian A. Dowdeswell	17.1k 1.5×	2.5k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	3.6k 2.1×	372 0.5×	448	18.5k
Roderik S. W. van de Wal	9.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.3×	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	315 0.4×	243	11.1k
Philippe Huybrechts	10.4k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	574 0.3×	280 0.4×	210	11.7k
Michael J. Hambrey	5.9k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	891 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	140 0.2×	178	9.0k
Anthony J. Gow	7.4k 0.7×	934 0.3×	811 0.3×	559 0.3×	498 0.6×	176	8.2k
G. S. Boulton	5.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	609 0.2×	1.5k 0.9×	373 0.5×	70	6.1k
J. Oerlemans	9.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	428 0.3×	214 0.3×	257	10.6k

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Morlighem, Mathieu, Daniel Goldberg, J. N. Bassis, et al.. (2024). The West Antarctic Ice Sheet may not be vulnerable to marine ice cliff instability during the 21st century. Science Advances. 10(34). eado7794–eado7794. 16 indexed citations

Benn, Douglas I., Joe Todd, Adrian Luckman, et al.. (2023). Controls on calving at a large Greenland tidewater glacier: stress regime, self-organised criticality and the crevasse-depth calving law. Journal of Glaciology. 69(278). 2059–2074. 7 indexed citations

Benn, Douglas I., Ian Hewitt, & Adrian Luckman. (2022). Enthalpy balance theory unifies diverse glacier surge behaviour. Annals of Glaciology. 63(87-89). 88–94. 26 indexed citations

Benn, Douglas I., Adrian Luckman, Jan Åström, et al.. (2022). Rapid fragmentation of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf. The cryosphere. 16(6). 2545–2564. 20 indexed citations

Robertson, Duncan A., David G. Macfarlane, Brice R. Rea, et al.. (2022). Glacier monitoring using real-aperture 94 GHz radar. Annals of Glaciology. 63(87-89). 116–120. 1 indexed citations

Benn, Douglas I., Adrian Luckman, Jan Åström, et al.. (2021). Rapid fragmentation of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, West Antarctica. 4 indexed citations

Slater, Donald, Douglas I. Benn, Tom Cowton, J. N. Bassis, & Joe Todd. (2021). Calving Multiplier Effect Controlled by Melt Undercut Geometry. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 126(7). 22 indexed citations

Karlsson, Nanna B., Anne Solgaard, Kenneth D. Mankoff, et al.. (2021). A first constraint on basal melt-water production of the Greenland ice sheet. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3461–3461. 50 indexed citations

Todd, Joe, Poul Christoffersen, Thomas Zwinger, Peter Råback, & Douglas I. Benn. (2019). Sensitivity of a calving glacier to ice–ocean interactions under climate change: new insights from a 3-D full-Stokes model. The cryosphere. 13(6). 1681–1694. 31 indexed citations

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Cowton, Tom, Joe Todd, & Douglas I. Benn. (2019). Sensitivity of Tidewater Glaciers to Submarine Melting Governed by Plume Locations. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(20). 11219–11227. 27 indexed citations

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Bevan, Suzanne, Adrian Luckman, Douglas I. Benn, Tom Cowton, & Joe Todd. (2019). Impact of warming shelf waters on ice mélange and terminus retreat at a large SE Greenland glacier. The cryosphere. 13(9). 2303–2315. 35 indexed citations

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Bevan, Suzanne, Adrian Luckman, Douglas I. Benn, Tom Cowton, & Joe Todd. (2019). Warming of SE Greenland shelf waters in 2016 primes large glacierfor runaway retreat. 4 indexed citations

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Sevestre, Heïdi, Douglas I. Benn, Adrian Luckman, et al.. (2018). Tidewater Glacier Surges Initiated at the Terminus. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 123(5). 1035–1051. 44 indexed citations

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Chandler, Benjamin M. P., Harold Lovell, Clare M. Boston, et al.. (2018). Glacial geomorphological mapping: A review of approaches and frameworks for best practice. Earth-Science Reviews. 185. 806–846. 189 indexed citations

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Benn, Douglas I., et al.. (2018). Characterization of the englacial and subglacial drainage system in a high Arctic cold glacier by speleological mapping and ground-penetrating radar. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography. 101(2). 98–117. 12 indexed citations

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Mertes, Jordan, Jason Gulley, Douglas I. Benn, Sarah Thompson, & Lindsey Nicholson. (2017). Using structure‐from‐motion to create glacier DEMs and orthoimagery from historical terrestrial and oblique aerial imagery. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 42(14). 2350–2364. 53 indexed citations

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Mankoff, Kenneth D., Jason Gulley, Sławek Tulaczyk, et al.. (2017). Roughness of a subglacial conduit under Hansbreen, Svalbard. Journal of Glaciology. 63(239). 423–435. 17 indexed citations

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Åström, Jan, T. Tallinen, Thomas Zwinger, et al.. (2013). A particle based simulation model for glacier dynamics. The cryosphere. 7(5). 1591–1602. 62 indexed citations

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Benn, Douglas I. & David J. A. Evans. (2010). Glaciers and glaciation.. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 929 indexed citations breakdown →

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Benn, Douglas I.. (1996). Glacial sedimentological research in Scotland. Scottish Geographical Magazine. 112(1). 57–61. 1 indexed citations

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